Method 1 of 4
Pour-over
- Ratio
- 1 : 16
- Time
- 3:15
- Water
- 94 °C
Clear, floral, tea-like. The honey process shows up as apricot on a long finish.
Chapter 01 · 1,900 metres
Altitude
Finca La Vereda sits on the eastern shoulder of the Cordillera, where mornings arrive cold and the fog lingers until ten. Up here a coffee cherry ripens slowly, and slowness is the whole point.
Chapter 02 · Late April
Harvest
Only the deep-red cherries come off the branch. Pickers pass each tree five or six times across the season, filling baskets by hand because a machine cannot tell ripe from nearly.
By dusk, the day's harvest is floated. What sinks is sorted again. What floats is sold to someone else.
Chapter 03 · 38 hours
Fermentation
Depulped, the beans rest in open concrete tanks still wearing a coat of fruit sugar. Native yeasts go to work. The air smells like cider and bread dough.
Thirty-eight hours is where this lot lands: long enough for stone fruit, short enough to stay clean.
Chapter 04 · 18 days
Drying
Raised beds of woven mesh, turned by hand every two hours so no bean stays in shadow. On cloudy days the covers come off; at noon they go back on.
From 55 percent moisture to 11. Patience, measured with a probe.
Chapter 05 · 11 minutes
Roasting
Green coffee goes in at 190 degrees and the drum starts to sing. First crack at nine minutes, like popcorn behind a wall. We pull this lot ninety seconds later.
Slide to shift the whole page's colour temperature. Lighter roasts keep more of the fruit; darker ones trade it for body and cocoa.
Chapter 06 · Four ways in
Brewing
Same lot, four methods. Scroll sideways to taste the difference.
Method 2 of 4
Espresso
- Ratio
- 1 : 2.2
- Time
- 0:29
- Water
- 92 °C
Pulled a touch long, the acidity rounds into caramelised plum and cocoa.
Method 3 of 4
Immersion
- Ratio
- 1 : 15
- Time
- 4:30
- Water
- 93 °C
A heavier cup. Brown sugar and dried fig, with a soft sage-leaf lift.
Method 4 of 4
Cold brew
- Ratio
- 1 : 8
- Time
- 14 h
- Water
- 4 °C
Slow and sweet. Think black tea with cherry syrup, served over ice.
Chapter 07 · Tomorrow morning
Your Cup
Twelve weeks from branch to bag. We roast on Mondays and ship the same afternoon, so the cup you pour is never more than a fortnight from the drum.
Cherry
Green bean
Roasted
Your cup
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